foo2zjs drivers

[Dennis Gilmore]

Once upon a time Saturday 13 October 2007, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 13.10.2007 19:26, Marko Anastasov wrote:
> > Today I ran the Ubuntu Gutsy RC LiveCD, and I was surprised
> > to find my HP LaserJet 1022 working flawlessly, for the first
> > on any GNU/Linux distro. This is because I never found a driver
> > for this model, and none of the others (ie, for other models)
> > managed to work well. I quickly opened system-config-printer,
> > and saw that the printer has been configured to run with the
> > driver named "HP... Foomatic/foo2zjs". I googled a bit and
> > noticed that a Fedora package being mentioned as available in
> > Livna. I downloaded the tarball from http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/
> > and saw that driver is licensed under the GPL.
> >
> > I'm curious why is this driver not provided by Fedora?
>
> Because the driver is not free software or patent encumbered (can't
> remember which of the two reasons applies). That's why it's in livna and
> soon rpmfusion.
it uses a patented protocol to talk to the printer.  The writer of the 
software also makes noise on his website not to use any pre-packaged versions 
of the driver.  but to only use it downloaded and built by hand from his 
website.

Dennis